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THE GIRL WITH THE PLASTIC FACEBy Mark Edgemon

There was a normal looking girl who wanted to be beautiful. She was in a way,
light brown hair, fresh natural face and a pleasant smile. But she was jealous
of other girls, who looked more glamorous than she and decided to find ways of
making herself more beautiful.

But no matter how hard she tried, she could never look more attractive and
this reality caused her great sadness and disappointment.

One day, she decided to find a surgeon, who could alter her appearance by
placing a layer of plastic over her face, which could be molded in such a way to
give her the look she wanted. This had never been done before and so it took a
team of surgeons to perform the surgery. They invented a type of plastic that
could be grafted to the skin and shaped within the first hour of its
application, but afterwards would remain permanent.

When the surgeons were finished everyone was amazed. She looked like a doll.
Not to say she was attractive. Well, she was in an artificial looking way, but
she had the appearance of a store bought doll. Her facial skin was smooth and
was hard like glass.

She was in the media spotlight for days after her transformation. The whole
world was interested in this girl’s miracles change. No one really thought this
new look was an improvement, matter of fact; most people thought she was
hideous. But everyone pretended that she looked beautiful and like the emperor’s
new clothes, no one ever said anything to the contrary.

No handsome young men ever dated her; no homely ones did either. She grew old
and her skin began to wrinkle, everywhere except her face.

One sad and depressing day, she died of loneliness and no one came to her
funeral. She had long since been interesting and the only thing she had to show
for her life, was a wrinkled body of skin, hidden by an artificial, hard shell
mask that covered her face. Since no one attended her funeral, the minister shut
the coffin lid and buried her, by passing the funeral service altogether.

What she never realized was that she had sparked a trend and now many women
had hard shell masks instead of their natural looking faces and everybody
pretended that this change was beautiful and so it was widely accepted
throughout the world. Everybody played the game and so no one was ever the
wiser…literally.

Moral: The only reason someone would want another face, is because they
cannot face the face they have.

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